View All Theories Howard Gardner is an American developmental psychologist and professor of cognition and education at the Harvard graduate school at Harvard University. He studied under Erik Ericson (Below) and Jerome Bruner (above). He published “Frames of Mind” in 1983, in it, he laid out his theory of “multiple Read more…
View All Theories (Memorize this order, one will be missing, you have to place in proper order in test) The basic premise for Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is that students progress through a set of sequential needs from psychological to self-actualisation. As they move up through the levels, they feel Read more…
View All Theories Bruner’s Spiral Curriculum (1960). Cognitive learning theorist, Jerome Bruner based the spiral curriculum on his idea that ” We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development” . In other words, he Read more…
View All Theories Robert Mills Gagné was an American educational psychologist who, in 1965 published his book “The Conditions of Learning”. In it, he discusses the analysis of learning objectives and how the different classes of objective require specific teaching methods. He called these his 5 conditions of learning, all Read more…
View All Theories In 1956, American educational psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, first proposed three domains of learning; cognitive, affective and psycho-motor . Bloom worked in collaboration with David Krathwohl and Anne Harrow throughout the 1950s-70s on the three domains. The Cognitive Domain (Bloom’s Taxonomy). This was the first domain to be Read more…
View All Theories Vygotsky takes a different approach to Piaget’s idea that development precedes learning. Instead, he reckons that social learning is an integral part of cognitive development and it is culture, not developmental Stage that underlie cognitive development. Because of that, he argues that learning varies across cultures rather Read more…
View All Theories Piaget is an interesting character in Psychology. His theory of learning differs from many others in some important ways: First, he focuses exclusively on children; Second, he talks about development (not learning per se) and Third, it’s a stage theory, not a linear progression theory. OK, so Read more…
(Please see full article for notes for each theories) What are Learning Theories? Swimming through treacle! That’s what it feels like when you are trying to sort through and make sense of the vast amount of learning theories we have at our disposal. Way back in ancient Greece, the philosopher, Read more…
Passive learning holds the student responsible for absorbing the presented information on their own terms. The information may be presented in the form of lectures or assigned readings. In any case, the student is accountable for paying attention, asking questions, and performing well on tests. Passive learning promotes defining, describing, listening, Read more…
Dear Teachers , You should have thorough knowledge of the following topics, questions may be case study based, but the following concepts will be there in it. 1.Inductive Reasoning 2.Deductive Reasoning 3.Divergent Reasoning 4.Convergent Thinking 5.Conceptual Generalisation 6.21st Century skills 7.21st Century skills-part 2 8.Intellectual flexibility 9.Self Efficacy 10.Learned Helplessness Read more…